Smyrna times., 1887-01-26
Home Duties of Girls,
THAT THEY SHOULD BETAUGHr EousE.
KEEPING NO ONE DOUBTS.

IL Is agreed on all sides that our
American girl should be taught how to
keep house. One of the most sensible
articles On this subject is in Good House.
Keeping. The writer says: at is bv
no means necessary to keep your
daughter in the kitchen half the time n
accomplish these results, nor ia it essen.
tlal that she should be skilled on her
marriage day in every kind of cookery.
ana be able to get up a frst-class din.
ner on short notice. This should not
De expected any more than that she
should go to the blackboard and nm.
erringly demonstrate the fortv-seyenth
proposition of Euclid three or four
years after she nas graduated at some
excellent seminary =" But the
elements of domestic KNOWLEDGE shonld
be thoroughly mastered, and a suitable
amount of practice given in important
details. The intelligent girl will know
now to apply such knowledge when
the proper time comes.
The natural imitativeness of children
Is to be made available, which the
mother who herselflooks after the wavs
OF her household will find an easv
matter 1.-THE little oneS l;Lo
to be useful, if they see others about
them useful; they like to follow the
mother about the house under pretense
OF helping, though often hindering her.
they enjoy using their little hands about
something that older people do; in
fact, to work until false notions are in
stilled into their minds Most
young girls delight to have some small
household duty committed to their
care; and if this disposition should be
tostered, instead of being discouraged,
as 1t often is, on the ground that thew
cannot do the thing as we'll as an older
person, they would, with rare excep-
tlons, grow up with sufficient knowl-
edge of those home matters and interest
IN them about which nowadays there is
so much complaint that young ladies
know so little, and care less"
Mrs. Ellen Bliss Hooker, in the same
journal, writes: 1--WE hear a great
deal about the decline in matrimonial
alliances, and much that is very absurd
IS said and written of it-mainly. it is
urged, that women are not fitted for
wives of men with moderate incomes.
1t is said that cooperative housekeep-
ing would insure a greater degree of
family life. When from large factories.
stores, laundries, and the like, we can
so order our home living as to lessen
the expenses incident upon the keep
ing up of large establishment, the
dispensing of an army of servants, and
proportionate expenditure for food,
etc., men of small capital can afford to
marry, hire rooms and have meals
served therein for a comparatively
small consideration. Without question
many young men who would gladly
establish homes of their own are de-
TERED from so doing by the manifest
extravagances las they call it) of the
young women"
But the writer thinks that the young
women of this generation are basely
misjudged. Because at the various
summer resorts they lay aside all care,
and give themselves up to recreation,
1t is assumed that they have no dOmes-
ticity in their makeup, and that the
summer-day frolic is an index of their
entire lives. Nine times in ten, if the
truth were told, it would be found that
the young woman who is styled so
frivolous has, with her own dainty
fingers, fashioned the garment which
seems to the uninitiated so extravagant.
Young men will do well to gain more
information before making rash criti-
cisms.